title: What's the fuss over human frontal lobe evolution?
abstract: Evolutionary neuroscientists seek to understand what makes the human neocortex special aside from its extraordinary expansion. New analyses find that the frontal lobes of humans are not relatively enlarged given our species' brain size. But are statistical cut-offs masking biologically meaningful changes in the size of the human prefrontal cortex?
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA. sherwood@gwu.edu
authors.forename: Chet C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Sherwood
authors.forename: Jeroen B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Smaers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D013045:Species Specificity